Character Spotlight: Noah (Greed)
Name: Noah, Icon of Greed
Affiliation: Noah’s Group & controlled by the Table of Contents( also known as the Index). Formerly of Arachnophobia.
Appearance: Soul Eater (manga)
Noah is an enigma compared to other villains in Soul Eater. He’s also one of the few sorcerers seen too.
While he introduced himself early on as “Eibon”, in reality, he is an impostor. His real identity is Noah, or rather an icon, a personification of a chapter from the Book of Eibon modeled after the seven deadly sins. He personifies greed. While created by Eibon, he was called forth by the Book of Eibon’s intelligence and former ally of Eibon, the Table of Contents (also the Index). The Table of Contents was a fanatic of his creator and envision spreading his “wisdom”, wanting to combine “BREW” with Asura’s madness to usher in a new madness. With this in mind, he called forth this version of Noah due to his greedy nature serving as a natural catalyst to collect “BREW” and later Asura.
When Noah came to being, his greedy personality had him conspire to not only obtain “BREW” but capture all the Great Old Ones to become the “Cosmic Ruler of All” for the simple fact that this would mean he “owns” everything, owing this to his greedy personification. To this end, he succeeded in catching the Great Old One of Power and Excalibur. He later allied himself with Arachnophobia, placing a wedge between Arachne and her two top henchmen (Mosquito and Giriko) as he help develop her Spiderweb magic and gave way to create artificial soldiers known as “Demon Tool Soldiers”. He also created his own in the form of his assistant, Gopher, who seeks to please his creator and master in every shape and form.
Throughout his tenure as the villain, he betrays Arachnophobia as he achieves his actual goal, collects Death the Kid within the Book of Eibon, forms a group and plots to assassinate Maka Albarn to harness her soul, in which he can then modify to use her acute soul perception abilities to track down the Kishin.
Noah doesn’t showcase much offensive abilities on his own, his independent magic only allowing him to create worm-like material on the ground to snare his enemies and fire a curved laser from his eye. Much of his skill revolves around his intelligence, capable of making various Demon Tools of his own and the Book of Eibon’s own Demon Tools. His most prestigious skill seems to creating Demon Tool Soldiers like Gopher, who’s capability comes from Noah’s modifying of the soul with magical power and combining it with the artificial making from a Demon Tool Soldier.
Most of Noah’s capabilities are centered around the Book of Eibon. Being a personification of a chapter from said book, he exhibits some unique connection to it in which he can tell if foreign bodies enter the book. He often uses this book for summoning purposes, housing demons and powerful monsters he’s collected, and summoning giant worms provided by the book. His most strongest monster he’s captured and later summoned is the Horror Dragon. With the Book of Eibon, he can also use the Madness of Knowledge, in which exposes people to absolute knowledge and drives them insane by shutting off their ability to think.
Noah’s design comes from the Grimoire character from the video game, Soul Eater: Monotone Princess. The Book of Eibon’s design also orginates from there. Ohkubo, having liked the design, incorporated it into the manga with a separate character.
He is a reference to the Noah from the Noah’s Ark story.
The demons he’s captured with the Book of Eibon are actually derived directly from various mythological creatures.
He has some sort of rivalry with Medusa, despite having not been shown to meet her on panel.
(Note: There are some things to reveal concerning this character. The idea that there was a romance between the him and Medusa is entirely made-up, someone on the wiki having claimed that and people believing it. Most likely owing up the fact there’s some sort o rival relationship between the two.
Some of the detail here is painted crystal clear in Yen Press but I remember once upon a time using scanlation, this information was completely omitted. There’s even a panel that hinted the Book of Eibon’s Madness of Knowledge that was cut. Namely, the Salvage arc had some crucial information about the character cut. I feel it contributes to the poorer reception the character does get from fans.)
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